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Thirty-one members of the Boilermakers Local 203 at the North Atlantic oil refinery in Come By Chance, N.L., collected their shares of a $60 million Lotto Max jackpot Wednesday in St. John's. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Keith Gosse

The 31 winners and their jubilant family members gathered at a convention centre in St. John's to receive the huge jackpot after the group of oil refinery co-workers bought the lucky Lotto Max ticket last week.

"We throw in $5 each, so we had $155 worth of tickets." - Moore Hickey

The group assembled two rows deep on a stage, and described their shocked reactions when they found out they won the lottery -- the biggest jackpot yet in Atlantic Canada and one of the top five in Canada.